Predictors of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a high HIV prevalence community.

Objective: To determine the incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) among individuals cohabiting with patients infected with susceptible and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

The objective of this study was to develop a molecular platform to make a rapid diagnosis of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant TB based on single

In the present study, we evaluated the prevalence of enteroparasitosis in tuberculosis patients, HIV-infected and non HIV infected, and we observed the influence of helminth presence

city of Rio Grande, an industrial-port city in the extreme south of Brazil, within a regional area of high prevalence of this disease [2], based on demographic data, presence of

In the present study, MDR-TB, defined as resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin was responsible for 14% of the overall number of TB cases and 69% of the drug-resistant

Methods: In order to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors for the co-infection of tuberculosis (TB) in a population with human immunodeiciency virus (HIV + ) in the Southeast

Due to the high prevalence of A4399T variation (20%) in the 20 patients subjected to sequencing, we then performed an unlabeled probe HRMA in all the cases and controls.. The

However, no data on streptomycin resistance mutations in rrs were available (Table 1). Isolates with identical drug resistance mutation patterns were grouped by pncA mutations,